Best Interactive Flash Shanghai Subway Map

by John Pasden

25 Apr 2007

– Instant English/Chinese language toggle
– Audio recordings of the station names (in Chinese)
– A color scheme matching Shanghai’s actual subway maps’
– Instant station locator dropdown menu
– Trippy “night mode”
– Move the map by dragging on an empty spot
– Get the fare and time estimate between any two stations by clicking on the starting point and dragging to the end point

That last feature is really killer. It even animates the path for you.

my company has a branch office there, and I recall the metro name to be Shimen No 1… which it looks like it is Nanjing now. And I thought People’s Park and People’s Square were different metro stops on different lines.

yeah, that is nice. every city’s metro needs such a map, both online and perhaps on the electronic ticket machines themselves.

@jason: unfortunately the subway doesn’t go to pudong airport (yet?) – you have to trek out to longyan lu on the green line, then pick up the maglev. why couldn’t shanghai city have just built an airport express from the city centre direct to the airport (such as the excellent ones in hong kong, and kuala lumpur)?

Great map. Does anyone know if the end of line 5 – Min Hang Dev Zone – gets one close to the Qi Zhong tennis stadium where the Tennis Masters Cup is being held in November 2008? (and a men’s event will be held yearly starting in October 2009) And who do we complain to about the early Last Train times? 10PM? Shanghai is a major city – trains should run at least until midnight.